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The fourth annual Global Corporate Venturing & Innovation (GCVI) Summit in Monterey, California on Wednesday and Thursday, January 30-31 by reporters Kaloyan Andonov, Edison Fu and Thierry Heles

Sector focus: Services

This is our data snapshot based on last month’s investment activity. The charts and tables have been generated by our data platform GCV Analytics.

The artificial intelligence-powered driverless vehicle technology developer has received $14.8m in a TransLink-led series B round, which included Hyundai Group.

Honda, Panasonic and Omron are among the limited partners of NordicNinja VC’s inaugural fund, which has identified several university ecosystems in northern Europe as offering opportunities.

Honda, Panasonic and Omron are among the limited partners of NordicNinja VC’s inaugural fund, which will focus on deep tech and help northern European startups expand into Asia.

Palo Alto Networks agreed to buy cybersecurity orchestration platform Demisto for a mixture of cash and stock, highlighting the potential of the vibrant cybersecurity space

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

The connected vehicle technology developer has expanded a series B round that includes Assurant, Robert Bosch, Amazon, Innogy, Telus, Deutsche Telekom and its T-Mobile subsidiary.

Ant Financial has joined existing investor Legend Holdings in a series B-plus round that adds tens of millions of dollars to the car leasing platform provider's overall funding.

The round consisted of two tranches, led by Hillhouse Capital and Sequoia Capital respectively, and pushed Aria Group-backed Lalamove’s total funding to $460m.